The department has well-developed basic and applied research, a leader on the campus in the number and amount of National Institutes of Health grants. Research in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience focuses on: 

Emerging Therapeutics

Cell-based and nanoparticle drug delivery

Immunotherapy

Neuroprotection

Immunology

Systemic and neural immunity

Viral and host pathogenesis

Immunotherapy

Neuroscience

Blood-brain barrier

Cellular and molecular biology of neurons and glia                    

Developmental neuroscience

Drugs of abuse

Neurodegenerative diseases

Neuroimmunology

Neuropharmacology

Neurophysiology

Pharmacology

Cell Signaling

Cellular Receptors

Nanomedicine